Clinical Congress News; October 11, 1996

FRIDAY ¢ October 11, 1996

Presidential Address

x i e are confronted with
the issue of work-
force numbers...this
has led to dire predic-
tions of surgeons retraining to be fam-
ily physicians, or even leaving medi-
cine altogether. Can the future be as
bleak as some would describe it? Is it
appropriate for us as seniors to shake
our heads and remark that the golden
age is over for surgery? I think not,”
David G. Murray, MD, FACS, the
newly installed President of the Col-
lege, said in his Presidential Address
last evening.

Dr. Murray told the audience that
“there is no question that surgery re-
mains an attractive field. The best and
the brightest are competing for posi-
tions in residency prgrams. the lim-
ited number of openings each year

Dr. Schwartz is ACS President-Elect

eymour I. Schwartz, MD,
FACS, the current Chairman
of the Board of Regents, was
named President-Elect yes-
terday afternoon at the Annual Meet-
ing of Fellows and Initiates that took
place in Moscone Center.

Dr. Schwartz, who is professor and
chairman, department of surgery, Uni-
versity of Rochester (NY) Medical Cen-
ter, will be installed as President of the
American College of Surgeons at the
1997 Clinical Congress in Chicago, IL.

Dr. Schwartz received a medical de-
gree in 1950 from New York Univer-
sity College of Medicine. He continued
his medical training from 1950 through
1957 at the University of Rochester
(NY), Strong Memorial Hospital.

He became an instructor in surgery
on the faculty at that same institution
in 1957, and has served as professor of
surgery since 1967. He was director
of surgical research at the University
of Rochester, Strong Memorial Hospi-
tal, from 1962 to 1982. He assumed his
current position as chairman of the de-
partment of surgery at University of
Rochester Medical Center in 1987.

Dr. Schwartz became a Fellow in

serves like the old-fashioned milk sepa-
rator—bringing the cream to the top.”

During the address, which he deliv-
ered at the conclusion of Convocation
ceremonies in Moscone Center, Dr.
Murray emphasized that in response
to this challenge, surgical programs
continue to educate the intellectually
endowed and highly motivated resi-
dents by reviewing and improving edu-
cational systems. “The College has
created a program to teach teachers to
teach, all in the name of quality educa-
tion,” he said.

Focusing on other workforce con-
cerns, Dr. Murray noted that the gov-
ernment is now pervasive in surgery.
“We have seen incredible benefits from
support by the National Institutes of
Health, the Centers tor Disease Con-
trol and Prevention, and other

1959, and he has been an active par-
ticipant and leader in College activities
for over 35 years. He has served as
President of the College’s Upstate New
York Chapter, Chairman of the ACS
Committee on Surgical Education in
Medical Schools, and Chairman of the
ACS Surgical Forum Committee. Dr.
Schwartz became a Governor in 1982
and was named a Regent in 1988. He
served as Vice-Chairman of the Board
of Regents (1993-1994) and as Chair-
man of the Board of Regents (1994-
1996). Dr. Schwartz received the
College’s Distinguished Service Award
in 1986.

Dr. Schwartz has held over 50 visit-
ing lectureships and professorships
across the nation and abroad since
1961, including appointments at Cornell
University, Mayo Clinic, New England
Deaconess Hospital, and Vanderbilt
University in the United States; and
Royal Free Hospital (London), Univer-
sity of Lagos (Nigeria), University of
Lund (Sweden), and the University of
Paris abroad.

A prolific writer who has contributed

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agencies...support for medical schools
and residency programs has helped put
this country at the forefront of the
world in this arena,” he said.

On the other hand, surgery has wit-
nessed increasing intrusion into the
decision-making process via heavy-
handed regulation, or poorly guided
regulatory activities.

Regarding managed care, Dr. Murray
stated that the capitation system is “ba-
sically a method by which an insurance
company or HMO can guarantee prof-
its because it has precise control over
the income and expense—no need for
actuaries, the risk is shifted to the phy-
sician or surgeon and the patient is out
of the loop.”

On the other hand, Dr. Murray said,
“Mucn of the tfailout has been beneti-
cial to us as surgeons...we have learned

Surgery will continue to attract best and brightest

to perform surgery on outpatients that
was unthinkable 20 years ago...we have
shortened follow-up time with no real
loss...we are able to do more cases bet-
ter in all aspects...we are forced to look
critically at our results and to justify
the costs of what we do...when it comes
to crisis situations, we as surgeons, as
specialists, rarely send any more for
every available person.”

Dr. Murray said it is his belief that
the practice of surgery has changed
enormously, and most of the changes
“have been dramatically for the better.”

“I close with confidence that the fu-
ture will be as exciting and rewarding
as the past...and when the call comes,
it will be for the best we can give, be-
cause everyone wants the best—and I
am looking at the best,” Dr. Murray
concluded.

Dr. Schwartz, President-Elect, and his wife, Ruth

Dr. Thompson receives top ACS honor

he highest honor awarded by
the American College of Sur-
geons—the Distinguished Ser-
vice Award—was presented to
James C. Thompson, MD, FACS, of
Galveston, TX, at the Annual Meeting
of the Fellows and Initiates yesterday
afternoon. Dr. Thompson is currently
a professor in the department of sur-
gery at the University of Texas Medi-
cal Branch (UTMB), Galveston.

As indicated in the citation recogniz-
ing Dr. Thompson’s achievements,
throughout his career, he has demon-
strated extraordinary dedication to sur-
gical research and to the nurturing of
young surgical investigators. His work
as a preeminent surgical scientist in the
investigation of basic and applied prin-
ciples of gastrointestinal endocrinology
and physiology has contributed immea-
surably to the field, attested to by 36
years of continuous research support
from the National Institutes of Health
and a Merit Award for his research en-
deavors.

As a Fellow of the College, Dr.
Thompson has served the ACS in nu-
merous capacities. He has been a
member of the Board of Governors;

President of the South Texas Chapter;
Chairman of the Committee for the Fo-
rum on Fundamental Surgical Prob-
lems; Chairman of the Surgical
Research and Education Committee;
and a member of the Nominating Com-
mittee of the Board of Governors, the
Executive Committee of the Program
Committee, the Scholarships Commit-
tee, and the Conjoint Council on Sur-
gical Research. He is currently a senior
member of the College’s Surgical Edu-
cation and Research Committee. In ad-
dition, Dr. Thompson serves on the
editorial board of the Journal of the
American College of Surgeons.

Dr. Thompson earned a medical de-
gree in 1951, and an MA degree
(anatomy/endocrinology) in 1952, from
UTMB, Galveston. He served as a
member of the U.S. Army Medical
Corps from 1954 to 1956, and he served
on the surgical service at Valley Forge
Army Hospital from December 1954 to
January 1955.

Dr. Thompson continued his medi-
cal career at the University of Pennsyl-
vania School of Medicine, where he
was an instructor of surgery and the
Albert and Mary Lasker Fellow from

July 1958 to June 1959. He was assis-
tant professor of surgery at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania from July 1961
to June 1963. Dr. Thompson was the
recipient of the National Institutes of
Health Career Development Award
from July 1961 to June 1962, and he
served as associate professor of sur-
gery at University of California at Los
Angeles School of Medicine from July
1963 to June 1967.

From July 1967 to March 1970, Dr.
Thompson was professor of surgery at
UCLA School of Medicine. Dr. Thomp-
son began his tenure at the UTMB,
Galveston, in April 1970, where he
served as professor and chairman of
the department of surgery until June
1995. In addition to his current appoint-
ment as Ashbel Smith Professor in the
department of surgery at the Univer-
sity of Texas Medical Branch at
Galveston, Dr. Thompson is professor
in the department of physiology and
biophysics, a position he has held since
March 1975.

He received the National Institutes
of Health (NIH) Merit Award in 1986
for his investigation of basic and ap-
plied principles of gastrointestinal en-

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docrinology and physiology. He has
authored or co-authored more than
1,200 publications.

The College’s Board of Regents is
pleased to recognize Dr. Thompson’s
outstanding contributions by naming
him the 1996 recipient of the Distin-
guished Service Award.

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education, Dr. Schwartz has written on
a variety of topics, including
hepatology, hematology, physiology,
and tropical diseases. He has served
as the author or editor of nine surgical
textbooks, has authored or edited nu-
merous chapters in over 40 other pub-
lished texts, has served on the editorial
boards of six clinical journals of sur-

£eCry, and has authored or coauthored
over 200 journal articles.

Dr. Schwartz has also offered his ser-
vices as a surgical consultant to the
United States Air Force and National
Institutes of Health, and has been a
member of the board of directors for
the American Red Cross in his area of
the country since 1981.

In other actions taken yesterday, the

Registration totals

As of Thursday afternoon, total registration for the Clinical Congress was
16,192. Of that number, 10,078 were physicians and 6,114 were exhibi-
tors, guests, spouses, or convention personnel.

The following companies have supported the Clinical Congress with
advertisements in the Exhibit Guide section of this issue:

Appleton & Lange

Applied Medical Resource

Bayer Corporation/Pharmaceutical
Division

Circon Corporation

Cogent Light

Davol Inc.

Ethicon Endo-Surgery

Ethiskill, A Division of Ethicon

Fischer Imaging Corporation

Genzyme Corporation

LORAD Medical Systems

MedChem Products, Inc.

MegaDyne Medical Products, Inc.

ME 92 Operations

Meadox Medicals/Boston Scientific
Corporation

Rhone-Poulenc Rorer
Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

United States Surgical Corporation

Fellows named James C. Thompson,
MD, FACS, Galveston, TX, as First
Vice-President-Elect, and W. Hardy
Hendren III, MD, FACS, Boston, MA,
as Second Vice-President-Elect.

Dr. Thompson is Ashbel Smith Pro-
fessor of Surgery at the University of
Texas Medical Branch, Galveston. He
is the recipient of this year’s Distin-
guished Service Award (see article
above).

Dr. Hendren is the Robert E. Gross
Professor of Surgery and chief of sur-
gery at Children’s Hospital, Harvard
Medical School, Boston, MA. He has
been a Fellow of the College since 1963
and has served as President of the Mas-
sachusetts Chapter (1989), member of
the Board of Governors (1981-1986),
and member of the Advisory Council
for Pediatric Surgery (1981-1986).

Dr. Hendren, Second Vice-President-Elect

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Past Presidents of the College, who comprise the Advisory Council to the Board of Regents, attended a Tuesday luncheon in their honor. In attendance were (from left to right,
top row): Ralph A. Straffon, W. Gerald Austen, Lloyd D. MacLean, David C. Sabiston, Jr., William H. Muller, Jr., Oliver H. Beahrs, Bottom row: G. Tom Shires, Willlam P. Longmire,
Jr., C. Rollins Hanlon, Frank C. Spencer, H. William Scott, Jr., and Jonathan E. Rhoads.

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ACS Governors named

he ACS Board of Governors
has reelected the following
Regents to additional three-
year terms: Harvey W.
Bender, Jr., MD, FACS, Nashville, TN;
Paul E. Collicott, MD, FACS, Lincoln,
NE; Margaret F. Longo, MD, FACS,
Lafayette, LA; Jonathan L. Meakins,
MD, FACS, Montreal, PQ; and Tho-
mas R. Russell, MD, FACS, San Fran-
cisco, CA.

The Board of Governors elected David
L. Nahrwold, MD, FACS, to serve an
initial one-year term as Chairman, and
Henry L. Laws, MD, FACS, to serve an
initial one-year term as Vice-Chairman.
Elected as Secretary for a one-year term
was Amilu S. Rothhammer, MD, FACS.

In other actions, the Board of Gover-
nors named Paul Friedmann, MD,
FACS, Mary H. McGrath, MD, FACS,
and William F. Sasser, MD, FACS, to
serve initial two-year terms on the Ex-
ecutive Committee.

Dr. Friedmann is chairman of the de-
partment of surgery at Baystate Medi-
cal Center, Springfield, MA. Dr.
McGrath is professor of surgery and
chief of the division of plastic surgery,
George Washington University Medical
Center, Washington, DC. Dr. Sasser is
chief, division of thoracic surgery, St.
John’s Mercy Medical Center, St. Louis,
MO.

In addition, the following individuals
were elected Governors:

Govenors-at-Large

J. Larry Lawson, Arkansas; Constantine
A. Michas, California; Jerry Goldstone,
California; Samuel E. Wilson, California;
Carlos A. Suarez, Florida; Sylvia D.
Campbell, Florida; Talmadge A. Bowden,
Georgia; Philip T. Siegert, Illinois;
Forrest Dean Griffen, Louisiana; E.
George Elias, Maryland; Parvis J.
Sadighi, Massachusetts; Lee R. Britton,
Michigan (two-year unexpired term end-
ing 1998); Anna M. Ledgerwood, Michi-
gan; Lazar J. Greenfield, Michigan; G.
Richard Geier, Jr., Minnesota; John P.
Christy, Missouri; John L. Krause, Jr.,
New Jersey; George Saj, New Jersey;
James M. Hassett, New York; Philip J.
Aliotta, New York; Bok Y. Lee, New
York; Barry W. Rubin, New York; Ira H.
Friedman, New York; William T.
Stubenbord, New York; Ezra Steiger,
Ohio; Peter F. Noyes, Oregon; Clyde F.
Barker, Pennsylvania; Frederick C.
Beyer, III, Pennsylvania; Thomas J.
Tachovsky, Pennsylvania; Marshall W.
Webster, Pennsylvania; Bradford R. Th-
ompson, Pennsylvania; James R. War-
den, Pennsylvania; Jeffrey R. Saffle,
Utah; David B. Pilcher, Vermont; G.
Wilkins Hubbard II, West Virginia;
Michael J. Hart, Washington; Stuart D.
Wilson, Wisconsin; Alfonso Morales
Zuniga, Mexico; David P. Petrie, Nova
Scotia; William D. Macrae,
Saskatchewan (one-year unexpired term
ending 1997); Ludovic F. Vereecken,
Belgium; H. Abuanza Orjuela, Colombia;
Silvio E. Pazzetti Galvan, Guatemala;
Howard W. Spencer, Jamaica; Ali Raad,
Lebanon; Shaikh A.H. Babar, Pakistan;

Dr. Nahrwold,
Board of Governors Chairman

Enrique T. Ona, Philippines; Sami A. El-
Boghdadly, Saudi Arabia.

Specialty Govenors
Fred J. Stucker, American Academy of
Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Sur-
gery (two-year unexpired term ending
1998); Martin I. Resnick, American As-
sociation of Genito-Urinary Surgeons;
Kenneth H. Musson, American Associa-
tion of Ophthalmology; Peter G. Trafton,
American Academy of Orthopaedic Sur-
geons; R. Barrett Noone, American As-
sociation of Plastic Surgeons; Alex G.
Little, American Association for Thoracic
D M I] American

College of Obstetricians and Gynecolo-
gists; Rodrigue Mortel, American Gyne-

he 25th annual ACS Spring
Meeting will be held April 5-9,
1997, at the Hyatt Regency San
Diego on San Diego Bay in Cali-

fornia.

To emphasize its strong commitment
to and support of general surgery, the
American College of Surgeons devotes
its annual Spring Meeting to the inter-
ests and needs of the practicing general
surgeon.

The Advisory Council for Surgery has
planned a program for the 1997 Spring
Meeting, The Practicing General Sur-
geon in the 21st Century, that will be of
interest to all general surgeons. Post-
graduate courses in “Image-Guided
Breast Biopsy” and in “Ultrasound for
the General Surgeon” will give hands-

Friday

American Society of Colon and Rectal
Surgeons—Executive Council Meeting
3:00 pm - 10:00 pm. Meeting.

Hilton, Bldgs. 1, 2, 3, Ballroom level,
Yosemite A.

Dr. Friedmann,
Board of Governors Executive Committee

cological and Obstetrical Society; Brig.
Gen. Leonard M. Randolph, Jr., Depart-
ment of the Air Force; Robert H. Ossoff,
American Laryngological Association;
Jerome M. Cotler, American
Orthopaedic Association; Gregory J.
Matz, American Otological Society; Jef-
frey A. Norton, American Surgical As-
sociation; Ira J. Kodner, American
Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons;
Ajit K. Sachdeva, Association for Surgi-
cal Education; Edward L. Johnson,
American Urological Association; Issam
A. Awad, Congress of Neurological Sur-
geons; Donald Silver, Central Surgical
Association; Norman R. Hertzer, Inter-
national Society for Cardiovascular Sur-
gery-North American Chapter; Paul

on introductions to these new and use-
ful technologies that are becoming nec-
essary tools for the modern general
surgeon.

The Assembly for General Surgeons
on Sunday, April 6, will focus on the
changes in practice relationships and
lifestyle, scientific advances, evolutions
in surgical techniques, and new concepts
in continuing medical education that will
face the general surgeon in the 21st cen-
tury.

Panels on gastroesophageal reflux dis-
ease, hernia, and the socioeconomic as-
pects of maintaining professionalism in
practice will be complemented by post-
graduate courses in current cancer man-
agement, critical care in trauma, minimal
access surgery, and vascular surgery.

“Allied Meetings Meetings

American Society of Colon and Rectal
Surgeons—Executive Council

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm. Dinner.

Hilton, Bldg. 3, Ballroom level,
Yosemite B.

Dr. Sasser,
Board of Governors Executive Committee

Friedmann, New England Surgical So-
ciety; Wm. R. Eric Jamieson, North Pa-
cific Surgical Association; L. William
Traverso, Pacific Coast Surgical
Association; David S. Mulder, Royal
College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Canada; Glenn Morrison, Southern
Neurosurgical Society (two-year unex-
pired term ending 1998); Bryce K.A.
Weir, Society of Neurological Sur-
geons; Louis G. Britt, Southern Surgi-
cal Association; Harold C. Urschel, Jr.,
Society of Thoracic Surgeons; Arlo S.
Hermreck, Southwestern Surgical
Congress; Robert H. Miller,
Triological Society; Amilu S.
Rothhammer, Western Surgical Asso-
ciation.

San Diego hosts 25th Spring Meeting

The Film Program, entitled “Best of the
1996 Clinical Congress,” and an array
of social activities will round out an ex-
citing spring program.

To enhance the educational value of
this meeting, more than 50 companies
will present products or services that re-
late to the practice of surgery.

Fellows, Associate Fellows. and Can-
didate Group members of the College
will be receiving the 1997 Spring Meet-
ing Advance Brochure and registration
form in early January. A preliminary
program will be published in full in the
January 1997 issue of the Bulletin. Fur-
ther registration information may be ob-
tained from Nancy Sutton at College
headquarters, 55 E. Erie St., Chicago,
IL 60611; tel. 312/664-4050.

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See you next year

We hope to see you at next year’s
Clinical Congress in Chicago, IL,
October 12-17, 1997, or at the Spring
Meeting in San Diego, CA, April 5-
9, 1997.

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